NEW DELHI: The country's fraud detection agency, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), will scrutinise Reebok India's accounts, which is alleged to have committed irregularities, according to German sportswear maker Adidas.

The corporate affairs ministry had asked the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to conduct a non-invasive scrutiny of the global retail giant and found "something wrong" in its accounts. "Prima facie, we have found something wrong in their books. The matter has now been referred to the SFIO for further investigation," Veerappa Moily, Union minister of corporate affairs told reporters.

RoC had submitted its report to the ministry on Monday. The enquiry was initiated by the MCA after it received a complaint from an investor. Last month, the Adidas group, the world's second-largest sporting goods company, had startled the Indian corporate world by announcing commercial irregularities in Reebok's India business. The quantum of fraud was pegged at Rs 870 crore.

Early this month, the company's financial director, Shahim Padath, had lodged a formal complaint with the Gurgaon police against two of its former top officials, MD Subhinder Singh Prem and COO Vishnu Bhagat.

The former executives have been accused of misappropriation of funds and showing fictitious sales for several years.

Meanwhile, Adidas too has started an internal probe into the role of its other employees.